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Hi Guys,
I live in the US and was looking to buy a 3D printer from 3D Labtek. From pictures, I'm already fairly confident about quality, speed, build volume, etc., but I was wondering about reliability from both the company and the printer. Anybody own one of their printers in the US? What's happened in terms of support? With such a small userbase, they could easily be scammers......
Thoughts?
-L

I am looking to get on of the 3D Labtek Prusa i3 Alu Printers (except probably custom and a bit bigger) and I was wondering what people had gotten out of them.
In the images of this thing on thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:151251) I saw that this person used the Makerfarm Prusa i3 at 0.05mm layer height and got fantastic results.
Has anyone gotten to this resolution, and does anyb

Anybody have experience with ReprapUniverse?
This looks like a great kit with the exception of the build volume of 7.9 in * 7.9 in x 6.7 in.
For the Labtek, I can't seem to find documentation on the LabTek website.....
The mentioned i3xl also looks fantastic, but the picture of it was blurry and the documentation link was dead.
I'm currently leaning strongly towards the RepRap universe kit a

I have decided to get a Prusa i3 (or simlair), but I have had trouble finding a good kit. There are a couple things that I'm looking for.
Build Volume - At Least 8” cubed if not more
Durability - I would love metal
Ease of Assembly - No soldering please
Documentation - I’m not very good with this stuff…..
Print Quality - As good as possible, with good resolution and speed
Expandability - A board

Comparing Mendel 90, Prusa i3, Printrbot Plus V2, and Robo 3D. I am looking for a couple of things. For background, I have a Printrbot Jr. V1 that Printrbot has sent me parts for to convert it to a simple because it broke.
What's better in terms of:
Experimentation - I want to be able to tinker with my machine; i.e add an LCD or change the hot end
Surface Finish - bare surface finish of prints

By surface finish I meant the surface finish of finished prints. I asked about the extension of the build volume, because I was not sure of firmware limits, and if I want to expand in the future I would be curious to see if I could.
I looked at these two printers mainly because:
Commercial, company support
Large build volume
Hackable and big community
Easily sourceable components
I also already

What's better in terms of:
Experimentation - I want to be able to tinker with my machine; i.e add an LCD or change the hot end
Surface Finish - bare surface finish
Tech Support - How bad is it if it breaks?
Reliability - Can I depend on this?
Dual Extruders - In the future?\
Build Volume Expansion - On either?
Different Plastics - Laywood, PC, Taulman Nylon
Other features - I heard Robo is

So after seeing the Tantillus and going crazy over how cool it is, I was wondering how to expand it if I were to build it. First thanks to flemming for giving me a lasercut version of the BOM I am using - done in google spreadsheet
What would I need to change (including printed parts) to expand the build volume, preferably up to 200mm x 200mm if not more.
Thanks,
Lucas

Sounds great!! I have actually modified your spreadsheet to work with the Tantillus Printed version but I had a couple questions.
To flemming - what is Sheet3 on your spreadsheet? I was wondering if these were actually needed or of some help on the build?
Thanks,
Lucas

I haven't yet build my tantillus yet, but I am almost done sourcing parts for the Printed Version and I anticipate to get it pretty soon. From the BOM, what parts would I switch to use 1.75mm filament?

Dear Tantillus,
I am super excited after seeing your printer and am eager to get started in building one. I was having trouble sourcing some parts though. First of all - the hex nuts. I have been looking on McMaster-Carr and I see that (for the 10-32) each hex nut is $2.63 (http://bit.ly/1bTl0Ml) !! So after doing some peeking, I have found that there are also left hand-threaded hex nuts at 25